The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

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Carla Santilli mentioned this Neapolitan philosoper at the conclusion of [this](http://www.world-lecture-series.org/a-new-renaissance-in-cosmology-part-1-for-matter-section-3), regarding how science must progress by returning to Galilean-esque experimental verification here on earth before applying theories to cosmology. Romano Amerio quotes the conclusion of Vico's masterpiece in the conclusion of his *Iota Unum*. Card. Siri discusses Vico in the context of historicism, and Deely also discusses him in his *Four Ages of Understanding* , saying that he was as interested in Newton's physics as Kant was.* * *Credited as the inventor of the philosophy of history, Vico's influential pre-Enlightenment theories about knowledge, metaphysics, and moral consciousness gained a wider audience with this acclaimed 20th-century exposition.